PPT-Syntactic Ambiguity

CSCIGA2590 Lecture 3B Ralph Grishman NYU Partofspeech Ambiguity Many English words have 2 or more parts of speech the last fast train speeds up station schedules produces lots of structures during parsing. Ambiguity . is a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning.. Ambiguous words or statements lead to vagueness and confusion, and shape the basis for instances of unintentional humor. Acquisition of Language. Lecture 11. Lexical Development III. Announcements. Be . working on HW2 (due 2. /. 21. /. 13). - Note: Remember that working in a group can be very beneficial. . . Be working on the lexical development review questions. The corpus can be used to define a . probabilistic context-free grammar. , in which each expansion of a constituent is assigned a probability. The diagram represents only the 25 most frequently-occurring expansions; these account for about 65% of all constituent tokens in the corpus (see Table 1 at right).. CSCI-GA.2590 – Lecture 3B. Ralph . Grishman. NYU. Part-of-speech Ambiguity. Many English words have 2 (or more) parts of speech. the last fast train speeds up station schedules. produces lots of structures during parsing. patterning. Syntactic patterns. Antithesis. Listing. Parallelism. Syntactic parallelism. Repetition of similar phrasal . structures. ‘. Listing. ’*. A. ntithesis. Rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences. in Persian. Roya . Kabiri. , Ali . Darzi. University of . Arizona, University of Tehran.  First North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL1). April 28-30, 2017. Outline. Provide definition of conditional propositions.. Types of Linguistic Theories. Prescriptive. : “prescriptive linguistics” is an oxymoron. Prescriptive grammar: . how people ought to talk. Descriptive. : provide account of syntax of a language. Descriptive grammar. Entrepreneurship 1. 2.12. Objective 2.12. Tolerance - . The capacity to accept deviation from the norm. Ambiguity – words or phrases with either a double meaning. Self-Confidence - A positive belief in your own talents, skills, and objectives. . Feature or Bug?. Oliver R. Goodenough. Vermont Law School & CodeX. Future Law, Stanford Law. April 5, 2018. Will Computational Law Lack . Sufficient Ambiguity?. This is often put forward as an objection to automating legal processes. Fine-grained prediction of syntactic typology : Discovering latent structure with supervised learning Dingquan Wang and Jason Eisner 1 Grammar Induction is Broken! This work tries to fix it! Starting with syntactic LI 2013 Nathalie F. Martin Lexical Categories Categories of words Distinguishing categories: Meaning Inflection Distribution Syntactic Categories Contemporary Linguistics Analysis : p. 146-150. Thomas McFadden , Sandhya Sundaresan and Hedde Zeijlstra Structure Building, Selection & Selective Opacity Lectures II-III: ( Upward and Downward ) Agree , Selection , Labeling Dr. Alexander Panchenko. Language Technology Group -- TU Darmstadt. panchenko@lt.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de. Agenda. . Task. Method. Evaluation. Results. Based on participation in SemEval 2016. “Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation” Task. nrrrrnnnn rrnnnrnnnnr rnr2 Coverbs Cantonese coverbs indicate relations between the main verb event and an extra participant including instrument location and beneficiary among others FM 2006a The Ca